No, that feature doesn't exist. My son is 4 and I looked. You can approve individual videos, but to my knowledge you can't whitelist channels for your kid. You can subscribe to a bunch of channels, and that will tend to make your kids' feed get steered in that direction, but random outliers are always a possibility.
Which as a parent of a toddler is absolutely mind-numbing.
Which means that every so often he will always end up encountering either some foreign-language content (borderline appropriate if I want him to learn his native tongue first) or something with violence, etc. that is not at all appropriate, or something like some kid playing some dumb but colorful game (non-mind-enriching, pure dopamine garbage) from some rando channel.
PLUS, they seem to be abandoning YouTube Kids in order to merge its functionality into the main YouTube app, and yet...
Like, does ANYONE at Google/Alphabet/whatever actually have fucking kids?!?!?!
I paid for family YouTube just so my kid (and myself) wouldn't be forced to watch ads.
All they'd have to do here is let me ban FUCKING shorts (don't get me started... note that they intentionally made this extremely difficult to impossible, good luck blocking it at the router level), and whitelist some channels, and they'd instantly make every parent 100% happier with YouTube!
And no, I'm sorry but this would NOT be hard to build/maintain. Hell, they can hire me to build it out, I'm LFW!
Which as a parent of a toddler is absolutely mind-numbing.
Which means that every so often he will always end up encountering either some foreign-language content (borderline appropriate if I want him to learn his native tongue first) or something with violence, etc. that is not at all appropriate, or something like some kid playing some dumb but colorful game (non-mind-enriching, pure dopamine garbage) from some rando channel.
PLUS, they seem to be abandoning YouTube Kids in order to merge its functionality into the main YouTube app, and yet...
Like, does ANYONE at Google/Alphabet/whatever actually have fucking kids?!?!?!
I paid for family YouTube just so my kid (and myself) wouldn't be forced to watch ads.
All they'd have to do here is let me ban FUCKING shorts (don't get me started... note that they intentionally made this extremely difficult to impossible, good luck blocking it at the router level), and whitelist some channels, and they'd instantly make every parent 100% happier with YouTube!
And no, I'm sorry but this would NOT be hard to build/maintain. Hell, they can hire me to build it out, I'm LFW!